Nicolò Sartori

Nicolò Sartori is currently Head of the Energy, Climate and Resources Programme and senior fellow in the Security, Defence, Space Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali. He works on the evolution of technologies in the security domain, paying particular attention to the concept of energy security. In addition, his research focuses on the geopolitics of energy, with specific attention to the geographical areas of the Caspian and Central Asia, Russia, and the Mediterranean. Finally, his activity focuses on the external dimension of Italy's and EU's energy policies, on the emerging role of Turkey as a regional energy player, and on the implications of the development of the Southern Gas Corridor, and on the governance of the energy policies in the EU framework. He's Ph.D. student at the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Kent, with a doctoral thesis on the relation between the abundance of energy resources and military spending, and he's Professional Fellow at the World Energy Council (WEC) Italy. He's editor of the column "Centers of Gravity" in the international review Oil Magazine. He holds a BA in International and Diplomatic Studies from the School Roberto Ruffilli in Forlì and an MA in International Relations from the University of Bologna. He served as faculty advisor at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he also conducted research on NATO's role in energy security.